Final Cut Studio
As the next major release of the leading video post-production suite, the new Final Cut Studio offers powerful new features, dramatically improved performance, and tighter integration. Its six applications give video editors all the tools they need to edit, animate, mix, grade, and deliver — at a price that’s more affordable than ever.
Applications included in Final Cut Studio- Final Cut Pro 7 for video and film editing
- Motion 4 for motion graphics and animation
- Soundtrack Pro 3 for audio post-production
- Color 1.5 for color grading and finishing
- Compressor 3.5 and DVD Studio Pro 4 for digital delivery virtually anywhere — Apple devices, the web, and disc
Overview
Final Cut Pro 7 
Precision editing tools let you work in real time with virtually any format, including the revolutionary ProRes.
- Edit faster and at higher quality across a wide range of workflows with new additions to the Apple ProRes family.
- Share your projects in one click to your Apple devices, the web, Blu-ray Disc, and DVD.
- Collaborate in real time from anywhere in the world with support for iChat Theater.
- Change clip speeds with ease using redesigned speed tools.
- Enjoy dozens of additional enhancements, including native support for AVC-Intra, streamlined alpha transition creation, improved markers, large timecode window, and more.
Motion 4
Powerful text and compositing tools make it easy to design stunning motion graphics in 2D and 3D.
- Add realism to 3D compositions with dramatic shadows and realistic reflections.
- Create selective focus effects in 3D space with new depth-of-field controls.
- Create and edit credit rolls with ease.
- Camera Framing enables one-click object framing in 3D.
- The new Adjust Glyph tool provides total control for manipulating characters in text objects.
Soundtrack Pro 3
Easy-to-use tools for sound design, editing, and mixing bring professional audio post-production to Final Cut editors.
- Voice-level match lets you seamlessly match dialogue volume across your project.
- The enhanced File Editor makes it even easier to work with multichannel files and edit selections in the Frequency Spectrum view.
- Advanced time stretch lets you stretch and compress audio with unprecedented precision.
- New multitrack editing tools include Waveform Zoom, RMS Normalize, and time-saving shortcuts for adding fades and trimming and extending clips.
- You can work efficiently with new options for playhead scrolling, snapping, nudging, and more.
Color 1.5
Sophisticated color grading tools let you create signature looks in resolutions up to 4K.
- Seamless integration means you can now send long, complex sequences directly to Color from Final Cut Pro without any preparation.
- Grade and render at 4K resolution for maximum quality.
- Work natively in high-end formats such as Sony XDCAM HD 422 (50 Mbps) and Panasonic AVC-Intra, or use the new ProRes 4444 format for grading with maximum color information.
Compressor 3.5
Simplified digital delivery lets you easily export to Apple devices, publish to the web, and burn to disc.
- The new Job Action feature makes it easy to automate a variety of post-transcoding tasks, including web publishing and disc burning.
- Automate end-to-end encoding workflows with customizable batch templates.
- Save time with enhanced droplets, which are like miniature encoding applications that you can use on the desktop without having to open Final Cut Studio.
- Create a setting from an existing file by simply dragging a QuickTime movie into the Settings pane.
DVD Studio Pro 4
The industry standard in DVD authoring brings drag-and-drop ease to the production of fully interactive, studio-quality titles.
- Drag and drop to design menus, choose transitions, and build engaging slideshows with ease.
- Easily develop everything from simple DVDs to sophisticated commercial titles.
- Burn discs using the SuperDrive in your Mac. DVD Studio Pro 4 even lets you create masters for commercial DVD replication.
Most Useful Reviews
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Final Cut Studio
Amazing peice of software
Written by CC from Ottawa
Jul 23, 2009
Final cut has been refined to the very edge. Compressor used to cause many compatibility problems in the past but these issues are now gone. I tested it with a large uncompressed HD file. I have to say that I am very impressed, and apple keeps selling studio products are very affordable prices. The last comment that I would like to make is that Final cut now better uses the resources of my 8 core mac pro and runs a lot faster than the previous version. Probably because it now only runs on intel macs. Thanks Apple. …More
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Final Cut Studio
Lame
Written by NH from newark
Jul 28, 2009
Wow there is virtually nothing this new version offers over Final Cut Studio 2.
This really should have been a free software update.
Next time I hope Apple releases another paid update to FCS they include DVD Studio Pro with Blu-Ray support! Or how about Color with a Apple UI? Wheres the Shake update phenomenon?
HOW ABOUT LETTING YOU USE A QUICK CLUSTER IN COMPRESSOR STRAIGHT FROM FCP WITHOUT MAKING A REFERENCE QUCIKTIME FILE AND NOT CRASHING QMASTER.
What they really need is to do some under the hood updates like making it 64-bit so you can use more RAM, including Grand Central and Open CL features, and use Core Image and Core Video more.
Seems like the only thing they did in this update was to remove PPC support, which is dumb because FCS2 ran fine on G5's and even on G4's.
The only reason to get this is if you are a first time buyer, or if you have dragged your feet forever to update a really old copy of Final Cut.
Bottom line for Final Cut Studio 2 owners this should have been free! …More544 of 738 people found this useful
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Final Cut Studio
Great Upgrade! And Blu Ray authoring, too!
Written by AB from Gonzales
Jul 27, 2009
The other reviewers saying there's no Blu Ray authoring have not installed this yet. I just authored and burned a Blu Ray video DVD inside Compressor. No, it's not in DVDSP, it's inside Compressor, and works great.
All the new tools rock. It's a fantastic upgrade.
My one big disappointment are reviews by people who've not installed and used this new version 3 yet. …More443 of 551 people found this useful
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Most Recent Reviews
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Final Cut Studio
Blue-ray decision
Written by WB from Mokena
Dec 8, 2009
I wanted to thank everyone who took the time to write a review on the FCP upgrade. You made my decision very easy, and that was NOT to buy this useless upgrade. All my customers are wanting blu-ray for their wedding videos and musicals. I am losing many customers over Apples lack of caring/listening to their customers. I have always sang Apples praises but that will change if I have to wait much longer for Apple to get their act together. Apple please fix this issue NOW! …More
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Final Cut Studio
Worst update ever
Written by JO from Miami
Dec 7, 2009
How much longer do I have to wait for bluray support?
DVDSP absolutely needs an update, the theme's are old already and without a true 16:9 standard def. theme my menu's, buttons, images, etc. just look stretched-out when I convert them to 16:9. We need better "complete" themes with music, title effects, widescreen, I mean c'mon this is not anything new here, iDVD has been doing this for years. Don't buy this it's a waste of money!!! …More11 of 16 people found this useful
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Final Cut Studio
Color problems
Written by AR
Oct 24, 2009
Using optical flow features in compressor cause color shift. In other words making a frame rate change such as 50i to 60i in the the same format and compression causes a color distortion. This makes it unusable to anyone who bothers to control color in post-production. There are other fundamental problems in compressor if apple is interested. It's a shame. …More
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Questions & Answers
Most Interesting
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Is there a student discount for Final Cut Studio?
- Asked by RD from Winston-Salem
- Oct 7, 2009
Best Answer
Yes, BUT, it isn't worth it anymore.
You pay $899 for the academic version or $999 for the full version. On the surface it appears that the $100 would make it worth it to buy the academic version except for the "deal-breaker": You CANNOT upgrade from the academic version.
If you ever plan on buying another version of Final Cut Studio, you'll have to pay full price for the retail version when you aren't a student anymore. If you are still a student when the next version comes out, you can't upgrade from academic to academic either. You would have to pay another $899 to get the next version.
If you buy retail, it is $999 and you can upgrade the next time around for only $299.
I think the extra $100 will be money well spent in the long run. …More- Answered by GG from Murrieta
- Oct 16, 2009
- 21 of 23 people found this useful
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How difficult is Final Cut Studio to use and learn for someone who is stepping up from iMovie? Am I better off starting with 3rd party software?
- Asked by RB from CENTRAL FALLS
- Oct 15, 2009
Best Answer
iMovie to Final Cut Studio is a pretty big leap. The approach to editing, the interface, and the robustness of the two are on completely different ends of the spectrum. Final Cut Studio is much more of an investment and a program you have to learn, while iMovie is a non-editors editing program.
Is it impossible to make the jump? Of course not. If you are quick with learning new applications and not opposed to reading a manual for guidance, then I think it is perfectly reasonable to move onto Final Cut, especially if editing is what you want to do as a profession.
I'd suggest testing out Final Cut Express, a much cheaper alternative that you could master the basics of Final Cut editing and then decide if the 1000 dollar investment in studio is worth it. My progression, with taking no classes and having no help, was iMove (older version) for about a year or so, then final cut express for about 2 years, and then Final Cut Studio. I am now an editor by profession …More- Answered by ZB from Hampstead
- Dec 7, 2009
- 6 of 6 people found this useful
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Will Final Cut Studio run on the new Macbook Pro 13"?
- Asked by MF from Tarzana
- Oct 10, 2009
Best Answer
Final Cut Pro will likely run with nearly all features on a Macbook Pro 13". Motion and Color require a discreet graphics card to support some features, which means you won't be getting everything that $999 pays for if you're running on a 13" MacBook Pro with the integrated graphics chipset. But if all you need to do is edit video, you should be fine! …More
- Answered by EM from Carbondale
- Oct 10, 2009
- 21 of 23 people found this useful
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Most Recent
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does Final Cut Studio allow you to import VHS tape and make a digital transfer and then edit ?
- Asked by TG from Emeryville
- Dec 14, 2009
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can I upgrade from final cut 4.5 hd to final cut 7? Or do I need to purchase the full Final Cut 7 software?
- Asked by HL from Little Rock
- Dec 13, 2009
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Does the new Final Cut Studio integrate with Episode Pro?
- Asked by PP from Uckfield
- Dec 9, 2009
